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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @06:30PM (#49705109)
Hmm interesting idea, although not sure if my users would want to share their location with strangers. It's more designed to be a thing you do at home or on a walk (my favorite) to keep your communication skills sharp.

Part of the beauty of the app is that it's pseudo-anonymous. Nobody knows it's you (unless they can recognize your voice). I think that helps relieve some of the pressure with public speaking.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @06:21PM (#49705020)
Feedback noted! (rly appreciate it btw)

You can just record a short dummy audio to get through the onboarding flow.

Microphone access is pretty central to the app. Even feedback to other speeches is given via audio (no text feedback). Though reading this makes me understand users may want to just listen and write text feedback. Especially if they're warming up to become speakers themselves.

I definitely don't want microphone access to block you from listening to others. Will be updating this. Thanks!

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @06:10PM (#49704889)
It's in the works! I developed the app in React Native, so should be fairly straightforward. My test android device is coming in the mail this week, an Android version should be out within the next month or so.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:44PM (#49701889)
I'm building Orate, a free public speaking app:

• Users are given a prompt and have 2 minutes to answer.

• Speeches are reviewed by AI and other users.

Speaking eloquently "off the dome" is an incredibly useful skill, improving all your interactions with other people. And like a muscle, you can train it with dedicated practice until it becomes effortless.

It has been very fulfilling to listen to other people's speeches, knowing that we're helping each other pursue our shared goal of becoming excellent communicators.

If you're looking to improve your public speaking, I recommend you give it a try! https://apps.apple.com/il/app/orate-practice-speaking/id6761...

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) on Friday June 19, 2026 @04:09PM (#48602715)
I'm building Orate, a free public speaking app:

* Users are given a prompt and have 2 minutes to answer.

* Speeches are reviewed by AI and other users.

Speaking eloquently "off the dome" is an incredibly useful skill, improving all your interactions with other people. And like a muscle, you can train it with dedicated practice until it becomes effortless.

It has been very fulfilling to listen to other people's speeches, knowing that we're helping each other pursue our shared goal of becoming excellent communicators.

If you're looking to improve your public speaking, I recommend you give it a try!

https://apps.apple.com/il/app/orate-practice-speaking/id6761...

Re:Using an 8K TV as a Monitor on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @03:21PM (#41988345)
I use a single ultrawide at home and dual-monitors at work.

Initially thought having one monitor experience was more seamless, but I do miss implicit window organizational aspect that dual monitors provide. And screensharing on the ultra-wide is a pain.

Re:New – Set Up Your AWS Notifications in One Place on Thursday May 04, 2023 @04:33AM (#35812705)
Full disclosure: I'm an engineer that worked on this service.

AWS User Notifications allows configuring EventBridge events to be delivered via Console, email, mobile app, and/or AWS Chatbot.

Aggregating notifications while respecting data sovereignty via Notification Hubs was especially tricky to get right. Hope you guys enjoy.

Feel free to share your thoughts and suggestions, good chance the PM will see them.